It's rare that gunfights are not accompanied with "how's your momma?".
"Yo, your momma been on welfare so long," my classmate Earl whispered to me, "her face is on food stamps".
Bad Boy Bail Bonds, based in San Jose, Calif., uses bright green Sprinters bearing the company motto: "Because your Momma wants you home".
"Is your momma home?" "Momma!" The woman who came to the door, wiping her hands on a dish towel, was a fuller version of the little girl, with the same blond hair and blue eyes.
Bump, the boy who threw the egg, said he left the beating shortly after it began because his cousin appeared and told him, "Your momma said get out of here".
They are sometimes depicted via lyrics that are completely hysterical in every sense of the phrase: "Your momma was a bastard, had your bastard face all over the scene," howls Trash Tongue Talker.
Of civil rights movements past and present, Sharpton said Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X were not conflicting forces, as is often supposed, but rather that "sitting here arguing about Martin and Malcolm is like arguing about your momma and daddy".
What not to say "Didn't he hang out with Tupac?" Rap that you can take home to your momma What to say "As a reaction to the vulgarity of gangsta rap in the 1990s, 'conscious' rappers such as Common and Mos Def preached love, peace, quirkiness and a respect for hip-hop's roots.
Elevators (Me & You), the first single from their new LP, cements their presence on the hip-hop scene as My Mind's Playing Tricks on Me once did for the Geto Boys, with the catchiest hook of the summer ("Me and you / Your momma and your cousin, too / Rollin' down the strip on vogues / Comin' up slammin' Cadillac doors").
The officer says that Gates was unco-operative, called him a racist and began shouting so loudly – "Your momma!" and: "You don't know who you're messing with!" according to the police report – that the noise constituted "tumultuous behaviour" and "public disorder".
It's a wonderfully loving and ridiculously complex gesture and while I applaud nontraditional families, I can't imagine explaining to a child that "your momma is your aunt, your auntie is really your mother, your cousins are your siblings, and your daddy — well, we bought a vial of him off the Internet…" Paralyzed by uncertainty, I nearly want to flip a coin to end the wrenching lack of knowing.
